HIST 1001 Chapter : ModernDayGreece Sept 14
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Characteristics: moutains (growing crops is difficult, light sandy soil. Discovery of new civilizations: homer, illiad, henrich schliemann, german who came from a middle class family. Father was a heavy drinker, pulled henrich out of school. In 1850 makes it to california to find gold. Sets up a business selling picks, alcohol, pans ect becomes very wealthy from his self made business. His whole life he wanted to discover the city of. Finds a hill and find massive walls under the ground. Claims he finds the kings treasures: decides to find mycenae. Finds a small, heavily fortified city with giant walls. As hes digging he begins to find graves of important people. One of the graves had a gold death mask. Found taboo paintings on the walls of snakes and bulls. Kept digging, found documents, clay tablets, with writing that no one had ever seen before: funny writing on clay tablets.
